Daily Archives November 7, 2013

There are approximately 225 million Americans who need corrective lenses, and about 125 million people using contact lenses around the world, according to Statistic Brain. For a very long time, the only way to correct your vision was with the use of different lenses, but beginning in the 1950s there were advancements in Colombia and Russia which laid the groundwork for later innovations into altering the cornea permanently for better vision. The United States patent for LASIK was granted in 1989, and since then LASIK eye surgery has been growing in popularity and precision. If you are considering this procedure, or one similar to it, then it is helpful to know the LASIK eye surgery process f